• Background Information. 247Francisco Silva married Rosa Gertrudis Durán y Chávez. Rosa was born about 1720 and died 7 Apr 1763 in Alburquerque. She was the daughter of Juana Montaño by a man named Urbán, but raised by Nicolás Durán y Chávez.

~The Spanish Recolonization of New Mexico, p. 368

• Background Information. 438Antonio Chaves, 60, alias El Largo, stated that the couple was not related. His father, Nicolás Chaves, had had a son named José by Juana Montaño before he married her, but after he had left New Mexico. When he returned he found that Juana Montaña had given birth to another son, Nicolás, and that she was pregnant with Gertrudis, grandmother of José Manuel Silva. Antonio stated that when he returned to New Mexico, the justicia forced Nicolás Chaves to mary Juana Montaño. Antonio declared that his father, Nicolás Chaves, had told him these facts many times. He had asked his mother, Juana Montaño, whether she certain that the two children, Nicolás and Gertrudis, were not Nicolás Chaves's children, and she responded to him that they were not, but were the children of a decent man named Urbán.

Rosa married Francisco Silva, son of Antonio de Silva and Gregoria Ruíz, on 12 Sep 1729 in San Felipe de Neri, Alburquerque, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.248 (Francisco Silva was born circa 1699 in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.)